# Staff Software Engineer - Managed Kubernetes

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU. If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us. *Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday. About the Role Lambda is building the AI Cloud of the future. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to help our development of our Managed Kubernetes platform. Think GKE, but purpose-built for AI workloads and running on bare metal. This is a foundational technical leadership role where you will shape the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI training and inference at scale. As a Staff Engineer on our Orchestration team, you will collaborate to help drive the technical vision for Lambda's managed orchestration services, including Managed Kubernetes, Managed Slurm on Kubernetes, and higher-level platform services for infere

- **Id**: 1206637
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lambda-staff-software-engineer-managed-kubernetes-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, San Jose, United States, Bellevue, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T22:55:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T20:10:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10404
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Servers & Data Center Hardware, AI Compute & Inference

## Company

- **Id**: 32991
- **Name**: Lambda
- **Domain**: lambda.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lambda-ai>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 49
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 314000
- **Max**: 465000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 465000

## Technologies

- **AIOps** — Optional: no
- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Chaos Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Cilium** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Google GKE** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **InfiniBand** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **NCCL** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Self-Healing** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T00:24:20Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 19; Filings 12m: 19

## Liveness

- **Score**: 50
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 50
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 465000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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